Stephen R. Rizzone

Troika Networks, Inc. designed and manufactured modular enterprise storage platforms and storage management software. The company was founded in 1998 by William Terrell and Wayland Jeong and was headquartered in Whestlake Village, CA

Elginex Corp. is a private company that specializes in crafting high-quality physical therapy equipment and supplies. The company is based in Westmont, IL. The company has been in the industry for 70 years and are well-known for coining the term P.R.E. (progressive resistance exercise) in 1946.

Katzkin Leather, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes automotive leather products. It provides leather swatches, table tents, posters and window stickers. The company was founded by Mitchell Katz and Lesley Katz in 1983 and is headquartered in Montebello, CA.

Active Storage LLC provides content storage and management solutions to the entertainment industry. It offers storage for media and creative professionals, broadcast, post-production, on-line, and archive solutions. Its products include activeraid, activesan, active viewer, mPath, and active admin. The company was founded by Skip Levens and Alex Grossman in 2008 and is headquartered in Chatsworth, CA.

LARTA Institute is a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, CA that aims to foster science and technology innovation for a sustainable planet. LARTA Institute's innovation platform and ecosystem accelerate new science and technology from idea to sustainable enterprise by providing a unique combination of connections, resources, and funding. The organization has helped over 4,500 startups, and its alumni have raised more than $7 billion in external funding. LARTA Institute offers startup programs designed to accelerate the translation of new ideas into sustainable enterprises and is committed to supporting diverse startup founders. The organization was founded in 1993 as a regional technology alliance to stimulate economic development of technology-based enterprises and has since become a national partner for numerous federal government agencies.

Communicado, Inc. provides management solutions for converged voice & data communications networks. Its products provides telephony VAR's, data networking VARs, IT VARs and service providers a solution to address the customer communication environment using VPN-less secure remote access capabilities. The company was founded by Kevin Shih and Kerry Shih in February, 2001 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.